This week we look back at the Advertiser’s December 3, 1993, edition.
• Say yes to Sunday cinema
The Springs Town Council voted to allow the The Palms Springs Cinema to open its doors on a Sunday.
It followed a period of almost a year where the council voted to keep the cinema closed due to religious reasons.
However, in the council’s deliberations, councillors said opening the cinema on Sunday would be no different than people watching TV on a Sunday.
Additionally, the move to open the cinema on a Sunday would boost the economy and also take into account the people who do not have their Sabbath on a Sunday.
The proposal to open the cinema was approved by seven votes to six.
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• Former boxer shoots sons before turning gun on himself
Residents in Brenthurst, Brakpan, were shocked when former boxer Sakkie Horn shot his sons, Steven (8) and André (5), before killing himself.
Sakkie had recently become unemployed after he resigned from the Boksburg Traffic Department as a traffic officer.
He had recently been found guilty of corruption in the Boksburg District Court after he was found to have accepted a R500 bribe from a drunken motorist.
Neighbours of the family were shocked about the killings as nothing appeared to be wrong.
A witness told The Springs and Brakpan Advertiser they had seen the whole family working in their garden the previous weekend.
• Boy saves teen’s life
Thirteen-year-old James Percival saved 17-year-old Albert Baloyi from drowning in the Heidelberg Kloof pool.
Both boys were visiting the resort with their respective schools when Percival’s teacher, Charmaine Stroombergen, spotted Baloyi laying in the bottom of the pool.
Without hesitation, Percival jumped in to save him and he with a fellow learner helped get Baloyi out of the water.
After he had returned from the hospital, Baloyi returned to the resort to thank Percival for saving his life.
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• South Africa’s first lady reaches out to typhoid sufferers
Marike de Klerk, President FW de Klerk’s wife, visited the more than 150 patients at a field hospital outside Delmas where they were being treated for typhoid.
She presented patients with parcels from The Women’s Outreach Foundation.
During the visit, de Klerk was impressed to see such wonderful co-operation between the civic associations, town councils and the South African Defence Force who came together to assist each other during the typhoid outbreak.
The parcels distributed included a hand towel, face cloth, soap, toothbrush, toothpaste, fruit and sweets for the children.
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